“They have formulas that they apply to games to try to figure out how much money they could make, and in the end you end up giving a whole lot of games that look exactly the same as last year’s games, because that makes some money,” Gilbert explained.
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He continued: “That’s why I really enjoy the indie game market because it’s kind of free of a lot of that stuff that big publishers bring to it, and there’s a lot more creativity, strangeness, and bizarreness."

There’s still a lot of creativity in big games but it’d be shame to see more movement towards nostalgia-driven/pastiche type games.

I’ve been using it for years now. It does everything I want and doesn’t push me into the features that aren’t for me, it’s great.

I’m impressed that it’s still developed by one person: StoryGraph Team

Which reminds me I’m 4 books behind on my 2025 reading goal…

Very nice! Jealous. We’re Windows 11 only, but I make do with WSL.